[Rarebooks] FS: First Edition of HUCKLEBERRY FINN, price reduced

[Charles Agvent]

Price reduced to $5000 NET

TWAIN, Mark [CLEMENS, Samuel]. ADVENTURES OF HUCKLEBERRY FINN. (TOM 
SAWYER'S COMRADE). SCENE: THE MISSISSIPPI VALLEY. TIME: FORTY TO FIFTY 
YEARS AGO. New York: Charles L. Webster & Company, 1885. First Edition. 
Original decorated green cloth. With 174 illustrations by E. W. Kemble. 
BAL 3415: With first issue points of pages 13, 57, and 143; second issue 
of title page, frontispiece, and page 155; and fourth issue of page 283. 
Also with McBride's first issue point on page 143. Recent Twain 
scholarship convincingly establishes three changes from the printing 
plates of the first printing of 30,000 copies and later printings: 1) an 
erroneous page reference "88" on page 13 later changed to "87" (BAL's 
point 2); 2) the misprint "with the was" on page 57 later corrected to 
"with the saw" (BAL's point 3); and 3) the misprint "Decided" on page 9 
later changed to "Decides" (not noted by BAL). This copy has all three 
first printing points. Nineteenth century pink paper bookplate on the 
front pastedown with the word "Wing" and the number "1783." Hinges fine; 
some rubbing to gilt on the spine and a little to the cloth, mostly to 
the rear cover. Contents lightly foxed. Light wear to spine tips and 
corners. Very Good or better. (#003993)        $7,500.00

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